HOW ART THOU STRATFORD UPON AVON?

Another special day for the Muru whanau catching up with more friends from Ohope. This time Mairi and her boys Robbie and Leo. They had been staying with Claire (who Mairi worked with when she lived in London) and her family of Manchester. We met at Stratford upon Avon a small market town in south Warwickshire. The town is a popular tourist destination owing to its status as birthplace and deathbed of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare, receiving about three million visitors a year from all over the world. We had a great time catching up and looking around the sites of interest in Stratford. In this special Garden which commemorates the place where Shakespeare lived the last years of his life until he died, was a mulberry bush/tree. We were able to pick and eat some. they are so juicy, like red wine all over our fingers.

The kids enjoyed the canal boats and watching them go through the lock. We all shared fish and chips but sadly had to say our good-byes at the end of the day.